The Golem

In this stunningly reimagined period horror version of the old mystical legend, a tight-knit Jewish community in a shtetl are besieged by foreign invaders until a woman conjures a dangerous creature to protect them, but it may be more evil than anyone ever imagined. Set in 17th century Lithuania, a conflicted woman secretly turns to Jewish mysticism to conjure up a dangerous entity to protect her community, which is under attack from both a spreading plague and deadly invaders. But the creature she molds out of mud and summons to life echoes her tragic past and becomes so connected to its creator that she can’t see what a heartless monster she has fashioned from abject fear and desperate loathing.